Stuck in 5th gear: need help with MNL consular interview K-1 scheduling

[waka1 28]

Great Cesar's Ghost ! I got our appointment. The first one I missed because I followed the wrong link, to the end of the link a ominous 'one more time you mess this up'. I had a good feeling and was not going back to bed, 15 minutes late feathering my mouse the sudden blast, 'Ch-Ch-Changes....

[Greenbaum 12,259]

Rob187, on 18 Jun 2014 - 03:59 AM, said:

Great Cesar's Ghost ! I got our appointment. The first one I missed because I followed the wrong link, to the end of the link a ominous 'one more time you mess this up'. I had a good feeling and was not going back to bed, 15 minutes late feathering my mouse the sudden blast, 'Ch-Ch-Changes....

Congrats. The path to the visa just got a little easier. Your almost there now. BTW, were you using C4C?

[Greenbaum 12,259]

Hank_, on 16 Jun 2014 - 9:27 PM, said:

If you click on continue to calendar currently I would not expect to see the calendar unless you are very lucky.

Stay on the dashboard page and watch the left side of the screen for a date to appear, when you see a date appear THEN click to continue to calendar.

With all the confusion with the dashboard I just wanted to verify that I have the right location and the right procedure to get to the scheduling calendar. Seems many are having problems and your dashboard example is a great visual. I just wanted to enhance what you did so there was no misunderstanding where to click to get to the appointment calendar. I am not 100% sure myself.

[waka1 28]

With all the confusion with the dashboard I just wanted to verify that I have the right location and the right procedure to get to the scheduling calendar. Seems many are having problems and your dashboard example is a great visual. I just wanted to enhance what you did so there was no misunderstanding where to click to get to the appointment calendar. I am not 100% sure myself.

GB, My dashboard links are different than your DB shows. My DB the top left link : continue

: Schedule or change appointment

: group appointments

: ( forget) Paraphrasing a bit here no sleep...lol

When I got the first C4C alarm at 3.10am this morning, I clicked on the wrong link (schedule or change appointment) that takes you through 5 pages of your data and you lose the appointment. Because of the previous nights FUBAR, 2 hits, one 30 minutes after the other, I prepped hard last night, I put a large sticky on my laptop to remind me of the correct buttons to hit, also C4C adds one one more step, make sure you hit ok on the C4C pop-up to turn C4C off. Hit continue link at the top left of the DB again, quickly scroll to the bottom of the page and click the continue button on the bottom right. My page reload took a long time, or so it it seemed, but I suddenly saw the monthly calendar page, didn't think, just nailed the highlighted 7/14 date and clicked, success. Using C4C is great, but make sure you do a few trial runs.

My fiancee was at her lawyers office with a 5 mbs line, at the very same time, so we were both on the same DB at the same time. The lawyer thought she got the appointment, but when my fiancee looked at her cell it was an e-mail from me. I got there first.

If it were not for the outstanding help from all you, I would have been lost...

Sorry for being so long winded....satisfied and tired...and remember this poster is mentally fried

Rob187

Edited June 18, 2014 by Rob187

[waka1 28]

With all the confusion with the dashboard I just wanted to verify that I have the right location and the right procedure to get to the scheduling calendar. Seems many are having problems and your dashboard example is a great visual. I just wanted to enhance what you did so there was no misunderstanding where to click to get to the appointment calendar. I am not 100% sure myself.

GB, I just checked my 'interview confirmed' DB, It's the same page as you show, but you meed to be on the home page DB to schedule !! If your successful then you will see the page you posted, your scheduled, in the bottom middle row you should see your interview date.

I do have 'one get there' first tip, change C4C preferences to 2 seconds from the default 4 seconds.

Rob187

[Greenbaum 12,259]

Rob187, on 18 Jun 2014 - 2:55 PM, said:Rob187, on 18 Jun 2014 - 2:55 PM, said:

GB, I just checked my 'interview confirmed' DB, It's the same page as you show, but you meed to be on the home page DB to schedule !! If your successful then you will see the page you posted, your scheduled, in the bottom middle row you should see your interview date.

I do have 'one get there' first tip, change C4C preferences to 2 seconds from the default 4 seconds.

Rob187

Thanks for the update. I just wanted to learn how C4C worked for you as others here in the VJ family need a little extra head start so I wanted to be able to post the process to others if ever asked again. I was not looking for my self as I had my interview and received my wife's visa last year.

Anyways, thanks for replying and good luck on the rest of your process. She'll soon be in your arms.

Edited June 19, 2014 by Greenbaum

[ajvitan 1]

Been waiting as well. Fiancee finished 6 month TB treatment and picked up her medical clearance on Monday. SLEC told her its only good for 90 days. I'm just worried that the 90 days will pass before we get an interview schedule.

[Hank_ 9,174]

Been waiting as well. Fiancee finished 6 month TB treatment and picked up her medical clearance on Monday. SLEC told her its only good for 90 days. I'm just worried that the 90 days will pass before we get an interview schedule.

Normally SLEC contacts USEM to schedule after they are done. Did St. Luke's say anything about doing that? If not may try making a call or email and explain the situation.

[ajvitan 1]

Normally SLEC contacts USEM to schedule after they are done. Did St. Luke's say anything about doing that? If not may try making a call or email and explain the situation.

Thanks for feedback. My initial thought was SLEC was going to assist. However they said since usem is backed up they can't schedule it for her. I've emailed the manila embassy to ask for advice. Should we try and contact SLEC again as well as phone call to embassy?

[lightypink325 0]

Hank, I know you know the answer to this. My question is, for the affidavit of support and employment verification or other necessary documents to bring to the embassy during interview, how long is the time frame on the dates that is good for?say interview is july or august but affidavit is dated june 1st?

[waka1 28]

Thanks for the update. I just wanted to learn how C4C worked for you as others here in the VJ family need a little extra head start so I wanted to be able to post the process to others if ever asked again. I was not looking for my self as I had my interview and received my wife's visa last year.

Anyways, thanks for replying and good luck on the rest of your process. She'll soon be in your arms.

Roger that GB....much thanks

[Hank_ 9,174]

Thanks for feedback. My initial thought was SLEC was going to assist. However they said since usem is backed up they can't schedule it for her. I've emailed the manila embassy to ask for advice. Should we try and contact SLEC again as well as phone call to embassy?

I was sort of thinking that but I wanted to ask to verify, you will have to hope calling the embassy will help (which I doubt), so stay persistent with watching for an opening. No benefit to contacting SLEC from what you said.

Hank, I know you know the answer to this. My question is, for the affidavit of support and employment verification or other necessary documents to bring to the embassy during interview, how long is the time frame on the dates that is good for?say interview is july or august but affidavit is dated june 1st?

There should be no issue with the June date.

I-134, most recent tax return (or tax transcript) and W-2

[lightypink325 0]

Thanks Hank. You're the best!

[Norba_racer 0]

I also used C4C and was able to get an alert on June 17th for an interview for July 15th. The alert went off a couple times and I missed those. I was sleeping and it took me a minute to wake up. We have been looking for 3 months. This was the only way we were able to find anything. I wish I would have know about C4C back in March, she would be here now. Just make sure you turn off your computer's sleep mode and any screen saver login so you don't waste any time getting to the calendar. Only took a few seconds for each day to disappear off the calendar.

[ajvitan 1]

Thanks for feedback. My initial thought was SLEC was going to assist. However they said since usem is backed up they can't schedule it for her. I've emailed the manila embassy to ask for advice. Should we try and contact SLEC again as well as phone call to embassy?

Just an update: Last Saturday at 3am the ctc alarm went off. I was fast and got the June 25th date. So long story short Sharon is on her way to USEM right now for her interview.

All of our paperwork, medical clearance and she even brough the old packet (pre-ds160) as a bit of evidence that we were ready to rock last October